The Frost MethodTM is one of the core advantages of attending the Frost School. Because of this unique curriculum, you will receive more than just an exceptional education, you will join the ranks of 88% of graduates who get a job within six months of graduation or go on to graduate school.

With the groundbreaking Frost MethodTM you learn by doing in small classroom ensembles.

Learn • Real-Time Application • Improvise • Create

The Frost MethodTM integrates the values and skills below into the Frost School’s curriculum to help you succeed in the rapidly changing world of professional music.

At Frost there are no barriers between disciplines. Students have the opportunity to perform and learn across departments and genres.

The Frost MethodTM will help you become more than an external musician who reads music and interprets, but also an internal musician who understands and creates music from the inside out.” Dean Shelly Berg

Over the four years of study, Frost undergraduates can learn about marketing, business, music technology, pedagogy, writing, and presentation skills in various courses that could also include:

Improvisation

Arranging

Composing

Critical Thinking

Keyboard

Music History

Engineering

Digital Recording

Audience Engagement

Communications

Marketing Plan

Understanding Contracts

Producing EPKs (electronic press kits)

Music Videos Production

And so much more...

The Frost MethodTM creates musicians that have artistic, technological, & entrepreneurial skills to thrive in the 21st century.

Qualified graduate students have opportunity to learn and teach this distinct curriculum as graduate teaching assistants. For more information contact: Dr. Shawn Crouch. s.crouch@umiami.edu

Please browse our program pages for more information about Frost School of Music studies.